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A little while I got a book called The A List in which The National Society of Film Critics made a list of the top 100 movies of all time and included an essay on each film. For those interested I present the list. If you were to make a list like this, what would yours look like?

2001: A Space Odyssey
42nd street
the 400 blows
All About Eve
Annie Hall
Ashes and Diamonds
L'Atalante
The Bank Dick
The Battleship Potemkin
The Birth of a Nation
Blow-Up
Bonnie and Clyde
Breathless
Bringing up Baby
Casablanca
The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith
Children of Paradise
Chinatown
Citizen Kane
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Closely Watched Trains
Close-up
Dance, Girl, Dance
The Decalogue
Diary of a Country Priest
Diner
Do the Right Thing
La Dolce Vita
Double Idemnity
Duck Soup
Easy Rider
Enter the Dragon
The Entertainer
The Exorcist
Faces
Fargo
Frankenstein and The Bride of Frankenstein
The General
The Godfather and The Godfather part II
Gone With the Wind
The Gospel According to St. Matthew
The Graduate
Greed
Happy Together
High Noon
Invasion of the Body Snatchers
Jailhouse Rock
Ju Dou, Raise The Red Lantern, Red Sorghum
Killer of Sheep
L.A. Confidential
Landscape in the Mist
Lawrence of Arabia
M
The Maltese Falcon
The Man With a Movie Camera
The Marraige of Maria Braun
Metropolis
Modern Times
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
Nashville
The Night of the Hunter
Night of the Living Dead
Nosferatu
Los Olvidados
On the Waterfront
Open City
The Palm Beach Story
Pandora's Box
The Passion of Joan of Arc
Pather Panchali, Aparajito, The World of Apu
The Piano
Psycho
The Public Enemy
Pulp Fiction
Raging Bull
Rashomon
Rebel Without a Cause
The Rules of the Game
Schindler's List
The Searchers
The Seven Samurai
The Seventh Seal
Singin' in The Rain
Star Wars
La Strada and Nights of Cabiria
Sunrise
Sunset Boulevard
The Thief of Bagdad
Tokyo Story
Top Hat
Touch of Evil
Trouble in Paradise
Ugetsu Monogatari
Unforgiven
Les Vampires
Vertigo
The Wild Bunch
Winchester '73
The Wizard of Oz
Written on the Wind
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So many good movies, so little time.
That is a great list but I'd definitely add
North by Northwest
and
Blade Runner
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